June 11, 2025 • 32 mins
Christian ; Follower of GOD Servant of CHRIST
Decorated Combat VeteranCorporate; U.S. Marine Corps Urban Warfare Instrictor;
S.R.T. Commander Active Shooter Response Team
Law Enforcement Los Angeles Police (L.A.P.D.) Police Officer / Fugitive Recovery
F.B.I. Instructor N.R.A Instructor
Competition Shooter; Multi Time State Rifle Pistol Champion
Hunting; Life Long Hunter Proffessional Hunter and Guide
Private Security Contractor; Several Agencies, Current.
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Decorated Combat VeteranCorporate; U.S. Marine Corps Urban Warfare Instrictor;
S.R.T. Commander Active Shooter Response Team
Law Enforcement Los Angeles Police (L.A.P.D.) Police Officer / Fugitive Recovery
F.B.I. Instructor N.R.A Instructor
Competition Shooter; Multi Time State Rifle Pistol Champion
Hunting; Life Long Hunter Proffessional Hunter and Guide
Private Security Contractor; Several Agencies, Current.
GOD Provides / JESUS Saves
Patreon
https://bit.ly/3jcLDuZ
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Training dot Com. As usual, I will plug in the
bio because I generally don't like talking about myself for
quite a while before every episode. If you want to skip,
you can skip around three minutes and forty five seconds
from where it starts. I will do a short amendment
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to the bio as it pertains to today's topic. You
may want to listen to that. Today we're gonna be
talking about the very real topic, the very real presence
of civil unrest and rioting in today's world and what
that may or may not mean for you. With that
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the bio, First and foremost, I am a servant of God, preacher,
a fisher of men. God is number one in my life,
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and everything that I do in this podcast is no different,
and I don't apologize for that. A little bit about
me in the background, I grew up I guess what
you would consider a heathen. Didn't grow up a Christian,
but I grew up in the Southeastern United States what
most will consider very poor, hunting and fishing and shooting.
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Joined the Marine Corps seventeen, did a couple of combat
tours in Iraq. After my combat tours in Iraq, I
was an urban warfare instructor for the United States Marine
Corps under Mohabi Viper. I also served in law enforcement
for several years. In LAPD. I worked patrol assignments and
more specialized assignments, whereby God's grace he got me through
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some nasty places in this world of war zones and
some of the nastiest streets in the country. Not because
I am better, because God chose that mercy on me
and had a purpose for me, and I'm thankful for that.
After my time in law enforcement, I was a private
contractor for a federal government for a three letter government agency.
I won't specify doing private contracting work. I'm very much
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involved in guns and gun fighting. I also served in
the US Army, both full time and part time National Guard.
I should say my primary MS is in both branches
of the military war infantry as of one sort or
another specialized infantry in the Marine Corps and MS it
no longer exists. I started competition shooting even before I
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joined the Marine Corps seventeen. I won my first gold
medal eaveue before I joined the Marine Corps seventeen. I've
been blessed by God with the talents he's given me
to win more shooting competitions than I can remember. I've
won most of my competitions and rifle and pistol, but
I've also competed in archery and shotgun and even muzzle loader,
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the knife throwing, hatchet throwing. I've competed in all that.
I've also been a professional big game hunter and guide.
Like I said, I grew up hunting and fishing and shooting.
I've done it to put meat on the table because
I like to put food on the table with the
talents God's given me. I don't apologize for that. I've
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done it as a professional hunter and guide. I've slain
all manner of beast and guided for all manner of beast,
bear and wolf, and elk and deer, mule, deer of
white tailed deer. I've slain ram and fallow deer and
countless animals. And I don't apologize for that either. FBI
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Certified Firearms Instructor NRA, and a bunch of other three
letter government agency certifications. Blessed be the Lord of my rock,
who trains my hands for war, on my fingers for battle.
So I'm one forty four. I've been blessed to be
the commander of a tactical team, an SRT special response
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team in a large metropolitan area where a primary job
was to stop active shooters. But again, first and foremost,
I'm a servant of God, called by God to share
the good news, preacher, a fisher of men. With that
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we will roll into the day's topic. So a little
bit about the things I've seen in life as it
pertains to civil unrest and rioting. So I joined the
Marine Corps seventeen. And that was way back in two
thousand and one. This was before we went to war.
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This was pre nine to eleven, and I was in
Kuwait waiting to cross the line, waiting to cross the
border into Iraq. We had not yet invaded Iraq, we
had not yet declared war, but we knew it was coming.
We were sitting in our tents on the Kuwait border
of Iraq, had obviously already been through boot camp in
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basic training, and to my unit, it shipped out. We
all knew war was on the horizon, but we didn't
know exactly when. And I don't have a way to
prove this, and I'm not gonna go back and tryusperstantiate
it now. But we were told, and I have no reason,
no doubt that we were, if not the first unit,
one of the very first units to cross the border
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into Iraq. And I was infantry, and I saw things
that only a Marine Corps infantrymen in war would see.
I got to see some unbelievably awesome and horrible things.
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One thing I got to see was I was in Baghdad,
and I was a specialized infantry and I was attached
to let's just call it a very special unit. And
we were in Baghdad covertly before we destroyed it, so
I got the very let's say, unique perspective. I was
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blessed to see Baghdad as a functioning, major metropolitan city,
much as you would see in New York or la
or London or Tokyo. Now, culturally those places are very different,
but they all have things in common, and they are
a functioning society and culture and a large metropolitan area.
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They had electricity, they had running water, they had culture.
The neighbors and our safe house next to our safe
house were British. From what I understand, there was a
pretty well thriving Christian community and Jewish community before we
went in there. It was a large metropolitan city. It
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was a big, big city with a large population. I
just I just looked up and this is one source,
but it says the population was over five million. And
Baghdad pre invasion. And I got to see that city
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as the units came in, as we invaded it, as
we bombed it. I got to see beautiful marble floors
destroyed under several tons of tank and war machine. I
got to see a functioning society with happy people walking
down the street and kids playing to packs of ruling factions,
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call them what you want, tribes, radical Islamic extremists, fighting
in the street, shooting in the street. A society where
once cops and police cars meant order to having no
idea what side they were on, whether they brought peace
or chaos. The sound of gunfire in the streets, and
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buildings literally being bombed and crumbled, the loss of utilities,
a loss of things like power and clean running water,
and sadly, fields of bodies just laying there in the sun.
And you know, it didn't take very long. I got
to see that perspective that most other soldiers and marines
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that came after me did not get to see, because
it was always a war torn place when they came.
They had never seen it as it was before, much
like any modern city in America and Europe would be.
They didn't get to see it descend. They didn't get
to see the breakdown quick it was, how violent it was,
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how unpredictable it was for the people that lived there.
But I'm blessed that God got me through that safely
and that I can share that with you today. And
then we can talk about it and learn from it
and glean from it, and that you hopefully never have
to see anything that horrible. Also went to work for LAPD,
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and as you might imagine, we had our share of
riding and protests, and I would call them more especially
after the Iraq incidents, especially after the war. I would
call them more of civil disobedience and protests. But there's
some violence. Yes, we obviously trained for civil unrest and riding.
We obviously got deployed to civil unrest and what I
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would call more not so peaceful protests. Also dealt with
this both in training getting ready for when I was
a private contractor and I was the commander of a
tactical team when the large metropolitan area we protected got
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shut down for COVID, and I got to see on
American soil just a light sprinkling of civil unrest and
got to see quite a high spike and violent during
that time, people getting desperate, people protesting because of things
going on in other cities. In Minneapolis, which is not
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where I was, which is quite a far aways away,
there was some let's just call it racial tension, and
some of the people that served under me, In fact,
one of the members that served me on that tactical team,
one of their family members was killed. And let's call
it a protest going wrong with police. One of the
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family members of one of the men was killed, shot
and killed. I got to see quite a bit of
violence here on American soil. And again it's alarming how
quickly a city can change normal every day to chaos.
So there's a few things that God has gotten me through,
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and with that experience, I'd like to share with you
some lessons learned, some things that we can learn about
rioting civil unrest, chaos, call it what you want. Lesson
number one, don't be in the cities. Don't be in
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the cities. Come out of for my people, as it
says in the Bible. So don't be in the cities.
There's a time and a place. You heard my bio.
I don't want to be a hypocrite. As a young man,
I felt the calling to serve and protect others. The
reasons I stepped up as the commander of a tactical
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team to command that and be in charge of that
and be willing to lay my life down kicking down
doors for the men and women on that team is
because felt the calling for to protect life and preserve
life and help others. And I was willing to lay
down my life for the citizens and especially the members
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on that team. Obviously, when I served in the military,
I felt the calling to do that. I've always felt
called to be a warrior and a soldier. That time
in my life, I had to obviously live in a
city to be the commander of a tactical team in
a large metropolitan area. If that's not the walk that
you are in life, if that's not the place where
you are in life, if that's not your job, if
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you feel called to come out of for my people,
get out of this city. An ounce of prevention is
better than a pound of cure. There's rarely riding in
the cornfields of Nebraska. There's rarely rioting in the sawtooth
wilderness of Idaho, or in the Everglades of Florida. Take
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your pick. If you feel called to, if you don't
feel a or if you're not, I should say fulfilling
a calling in the city, come out, come out of
her be set brit Revelation eighteen. And I heard another
voice from heaven saying, come out of her my people,
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that you be not partakers of her sins and that
you receive not of her plagues. You get any large,
large gathering of people together, and it's just statistically some
of those people are not going to be good people. Generally,
there are people that keep those people in check law
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and order. But if that law and order is removed,
then what happens. And when people see other people getting
away with stuff, people that are normally neutral shift over
and take advantage of the situation. All that being said,
that is mitigated if you remove yourself from that large
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gathering of people. And I'm not talking about suburbs what
I call people hives. That's still a large gathering of people.
As I alluded to in the situations I've been in,
it is amazing how fast a city can descend into chaos.
The next tip if you are in a city, or
have to work in a city, is leave before you
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think you need to. Things happen quickly, things escalate very quickly.
If you've ever been in a traffic jam, which I'm
sure you probably all have if you're listening, you'll know
that when I was LAPD if I got on the
freeway at a certain time, fifteen minutes later, it might
cause me another hour on the freeway. Likewise, in a disaster,
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if you don't get out before you think you need to,
if you wait till it's very obvious that you have
to get out, then most people are gonna know they
have to get out, and they're all gonna try and flee.
You'll get out before you think you need to take
a quick vacation, your family on a camping trip, whatever
that might be. Get out before you think you need to,
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before it's obvious, because if it's obvious, everybody's going to
be trying to get out. If you've listened recently, you
know that I actually had to bug out, not because
of any civil unrest or anything. In fact the opposite
of that. We lived near two giant national forests. One's
one point six million acres and one is one point
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eight million acres of beautiful wilderness and forest or as
a wildfire. We had to get out quickly. And you
may want to go back and give that episode to listen.
I actually did two, one right afterwards and one a
week or so afterwards, with lessons learned from actually bugging
out again. It is amazing how quickly things can break down.
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But a big lesson learned from that, and this also
applies to civil unrest, is have a plan. We knew
where we were going, We knew we were bugging out too,
and rewinding when my wife and I lived in the city,
when I was the commander of that tactical team and
the SOPs that we had standard operating procedures for you
non military types, our standard operating procedure. We knew where
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we were going to rendezvous and when big situations happened,
whatever that disaster might be, especially civil unrest, especially like
a bombing or a giant event or rioting. If everybody
is trying to use their cell phones their communications at once,
they normally crash. It's normally not feasibly able to make
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a call and just talk to somebody. One tip is
you may try and send several text messages the same
one over and over and hopes that one will get through,
but don't rely on that. My wife and I both
carried in our vehicles a different color of paint, a
very obnoxious color. My wife had like this little lavender
color of purple, a very uncommon color, and I had
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a weird kind of green color. We had places where
we were going to meet We lived within running distance
of each other. We worked for a giant company. And
I won't say anymore because I'll give it away what
I did. But we lived in a large metropolitan area
and we were within a running distance of each other.
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We knew that freeways and things could get clogged, be congested,
and we might not be able to drive to each other.
But we had a plan and where we were going
to meet up. And if we got there and the
other person wasn't there, we knew if that paint was there,
that person had already been there and where they were
going next. If we saw that paint, if we saw
that color. Most people aren't going around tagging gang signs
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in lavender purple. Knew If let's say I went there
and I saw that, I knew that she had already
been there, and she was on her way to the
next place safer and further away from the large metropolitan area,
had that sop. I'm arn for doing this at the time,
but we do it now, and I'll call myself out.
I probably need to recharge it because it's been a while.
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But we carry walkie talkies in the glove boxes of
our cars so we can communicate even now. All that
to say, have a plan. Don't in the middle of
this chaos, in the middle of the civil breakdown and unrest,
think oh, I got to get my kids and my
wife or my friends or whatever, and have they have
no idea where to meet because again you probably won't
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have comms, you probably won't be able to use your
cell phone, no idea how to get them, where to
get them. Something happens to your kids, know where to
rendezvous with you if it's not at home, if you
can't get home, have several places picked out. Don't have kids.
You don't have to freak them out. Just say, hey,
you know, if something bad ever happens, bad ever happens
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to school and you have to run away, or you
get away, that spot where we went squirrel hunting, or
that spot where like to park and watch the sunset,
that's where we're gonna meet. And they know that that way,
if something bad happens, they don't have to figure out
how they're gonna find you. Lots if people and families
and refugees and stuff get displaced in disasters, don't let
that be. You have a plan. Have a plan first.
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When that wildfire broke out. My wife and I had
a predesignatid bug out location and we had two designative
routes we knew. My wife just reminded me also we
had especially when we lived in a large metropolitan area,
we talked about those colors of paint. Well, we had
sat down and made a list of things we were
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going to grab, things that were most important. If we
had more time, we would grab more stuff. But as
you may imagine if you listen to Gunfighter to Life,
another podcast that we do, I'm kind of into guns. Obviously.
I've made my living as a professional gunfighter most of
my adult life. I have like my go to guns
and a couple especially like this is my go to
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end of the whatever chaos is descending upon us, the
peanut butter and chocolate has hit the fan. Guns and
I had certain AMMO and stuff designated for that. I
had are important documents where they were gonna be, and
a lot of that stuff I tagged with that obnoxious
color so that you could just walk through the house
and be like, oh, that's that's super bright green. I'm
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grabbing that. That's important, especially when there's a lot of
stuff going on, rioting and looting, and especially if you've
got to get out of there, the first ones get
out of there are going to get out of there
much faster than people that wait four or five or
six minutes later. So my wife just reminded me that
I kind of forgot about that. Yeah, not all this
stuff was tactical. Like I said, important documents refugees like
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you need to be able to prove who you are,
what you've done, things like that, clothes that you're going
to take, or a predesignated things to grab passport might
be pretty important. Cash Cash is a big one and
a big disaster, except for the very biggest of disasters,
cash is going to be much much appreciated and good
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to have when things like ATM machines aren't working on
powers out. I forget the guy's name, but he was
in one of the South American countries when it broke
down into civil unrest. And I forget the exact quote,
but it was something like a glock nineteen and ten
thousand dollars will get you out of a lot of problems.
And I see a lot of wisdom in that, especially
if even if it is a complete breakdown, even at first,
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you offer somebody, you know, one thousand dollars for a
couple of gallons of gas. If you need it, it's
worth it. And if they don't know exactly what this
is going to pan out to be and you offer
them that kind of money, they'll probably take it. Do
that with anything, food, water, whatever, especially in the beginning.
But anyways, we've we've done whole episodes on bug out
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bags and smaller bug out bags and things like that.
You can go back and look those up. Have a plan,
have a plan to get out, have a plan of
things you need to take and things that aren't important.
The human life is most important, but some things and
these things happen quickly. Big fan of keeping things in
your vehicle for this very reason. He just talked several
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times about the end of the age. He says, a
fleet to the mountains. He also says, don't turn back.
It's going to happen suddenly. But he's talking about like
the end of the age, the end of days. But
most disasters they can happen pretty quickly. So don't have
all your ars and your shotguns and everything and a
safe locked up at home on a fifty mile commute
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to work. Have that in your car. Well often, you know,
we're amazing. I keep like a couple of long guns
in my car, Like what if so many breaks in?
Take them like God will provide, I'll get more. That's
way better than the reverse. In that there's a big
mass shooting or mass chaos and I need or be
very beneficial to have something a little bit more potent
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than my everyday carry gun. I can steal carry gun
and it's fifty miles away, locked in a safe somewhere.
If it's one of your go to guns, it needs
to be where you are. It's a quick recap come
out of my people. If you can, don't be in
the city, get out before you think you need to
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have a plan. My wife will tell you that I'm
not the most organized person, but when it comes to this,
I like a little bit of organization. I like to
know what's going on and have a plan, not a
place to be unorganized. Have backup comms, have backup communications.
Your cell phone's probably not gonna work in a major disaster,
walkie talkieslers, whatever That plan could because be something so
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simple and I just make this up. You could say,
you know that place we're gonna meet you know this corner,
there's a stop sign. If there's a pile of rocks.
If I pile a pile of rocks up near that
stop sign, that means that it's not safe to go home.
In certain kind of tactical operations with you, stuff like
this all the time that just the average passer by
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is not gonna know. You know, if there's a stick
in this mailbox when you walk by and check it,
if there's a stick in there, that means it's not
safe to go here. It means I've already been here
and left, and you need to meet me at X
so and so place. It's not complicated stuff, but you
both everybody needs to be on the same page. You
know it beforehand. You need to know where you're going.
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You need to have a plan, location, and again, rally points,
that's what we're talking about. If you're not a military person.
I try not to use too much military vernacular, but
rally points, objective, rally points, fall back, rally points. And again,
you don't have to say all these crazy terms and
freak people out. You get you and your wife both
work in the city, live at home. If something happens,
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this is where we're gonna meet if that's not viable,
if that's where a problem is, then we're gonna meet here.
We're gonna meet at the Tasty Freeze where we like
to get I don't know, ice cream. I'm making stuff up.
I don't know. You get the point, whatever that is
for you. Now, let's say you've screwed up. You are
in the city. You didn't get out in time, and
you can't get out, now what, And you need to
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have a plan beforehand if you can't get out. A
big killer in any natural disaster, and especially if things
go down a long period of time, people die from
lack of water, and they die from lack of clean water.
Big killer and a lot of disasters is people drinking
dirty water and dying from water born diseases. If the
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live in a city, you're probably not on a well,
you're probably on city water. What happens when the city
stops cleaning that water, or what happens when you turn
on the tap and the water comes out again as
soon as you get the inkling before you think you
need to maybe fill your bathtubs up with water. You
ought to store a little bit of water in your house. Again,
it's not hard. You don't have to freak people out.
Just have a couple of cases of water in the
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bottom of a closet. We used to have an area
in our apartment that we didn't use much, and we
had it filled with the five gallon containers of water
in case we couldn't get out. You probably have a
little bit of food in your apartment. I'm a big
fan of storing food and things like that. Water is important.
Clean water is important. Don't just assume because your whole
life you turn on a tap and waters come out,
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that it's going to be that way in a disaster.
And have a plan again for hardening your home. To
teach whole courses on this on home hardening, on hardening
your home making it a hard target. But again, your
best bet is to be out of the city. I
don't care how hardcore prepper you are, with your awesome
battle rifle and your super tactical kit, your plate carrier
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and your night vision goggles on your helmet, protecting your home.
You know, if you live in a cul de sac
and they're civil unrest, somebody could just break into the
home beside you, and you know, lob Molotov cocktails in
your house. You can stand in your ground and fight,
but when your house is on fire from an empty
beer bottle full with fifty cents worth of gasoline, doesn't
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take much to burn down most residences. All the ambulon
guns in the rules are not going to save you
from that, So try and get out of there. If
you have to try and make your home a harder target.
A lot of times, I hate to put it this way,
but looters and mobs and things go for low hanging fruit,
They go for easy target. So if you can make
your place a harder target. A big part of this
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is community. Again, have a plan, talk to your neighbors beforehand.
If you live in the suburbs, what I like to
call a people hive. You know, if there's five cul
de sacs and one has banded together and parked other
vehicles in front of the cul de sac and blocked
it and has barricades and has people on patrol with
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you know, flashlights, with ways to defend themselves, they might
not want to mess with that cul de sac. Again,
any determined intruder you're probably not gonna be able to
defend against. Long term, there's a regencyge warfare, so effective,
but they're just looking for easy targets. Don't be that
easy target, be a hard target. And that's a whole
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other thing. We can get into a whole other episode.
And if you like this episode, I'd like to hear it,
and I'd like to make this a series. I would
like to get into more into home hardening, community hardening.
I would also like to get into the firearms. As
you can imagine. Again, I've been a professional gunfighter most
of my adult life. Good and bad choices for civil unrest, firearms,
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used to employ them and deploy them when that's good,
when and that's bad, when it's appropriate, when it's not.
All those kind of things getting in get into in
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Everybody on there is awesome. But his tip is, you
know you ever go to the airport and forget that
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Well apparently they sell those knives in batches on eBay.
So if you're a knife guy, you know I'm big
into EDC. You know I'm big on carrying a knife.
I think a man, especially in Alpha male, you ought
to have a blade on you ought to have a
knife on you. One of his well it's called the
tactical tip of the day is you can get those
knives on eBay. People auction those off. They buy them
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in big, in big batches and lots from what I understand,
and they sell them on eBay at a bargain. So
instead of going to Wish or whatever and getting the
cheap Chinese knockoff of the knife you've always wanted. Maybe
go to eBay and check that and see if you
the bench made you've wanted or the cold steel is
on there from a tsa confiscation that you can get
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more important thing, the tactical verse of the day. And
we've covered a few verses today. This is going to
be the first part of Psalm seventy one in you,
Oh Lord, I put my trust. Let me never be
put to shame. Deliver me and your righteousness and cause
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me to escape and climb Your ear to me and
save me. Be my strong refuge. Thanks man, have a
blessed day.
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bio because I generally don't like talking about myself for
quite a while before every episode. If you want to skip,
you can skip around three minutes and forty five seconds
from where it starts. I will do a short amendment
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to the bio as it pertains to today's topic. You
may want to listen to that. Today we're gonna be
talking about the very real topic, the very real presence
of civil unrest and rioting in today's world and what
that may or may not mean for you. With that
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the bio, First and foremost, I am a servant of God, preacher,
a fisher of men. God is number one in my life,
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and everything that I do in this podcast is no different,
and I don't apologize for that. A little bit about
me in the background, I grew up I guess what
you would consider a heathen. Didn't grow up a Christian,
but I grew up in the Southeastern United States what
most will consider very poor, hunting and fishing and shooting.
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Joined the Marine Corps seventeen, did a couple of combat
tours in Iraq. After my combat tours in Iraq, I
was an urban warfare instructor for the United States Marine
Corps under Mohabi Viper. I also served in law enforcement
for several years. In LAPD. I worked patrol assignments and
more specialized assignments, whereby God's grace he got me through
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some nasty places in this world of war zones and
some of the nastiest streets in the country. Not because
I am better, because God chose that mercy on me
and had a purpose for me, and I'm thankful for that.
After my time in law enforcement, I was a private
contractor for a federal government for a three letter government agency.
I won't specify doing private contracting work. I'm very much
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involved in guns and gun fighting. I also served in
the US Army, both full time and part time National Guard.
I should say my primary MS is in both branches
of the military war infantry as of one sort or
another specialized infantry in the Marine Corps and MS it
no longer exists. I started competition shooting even before I
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joined the Marine Corps seventeen. I won my first gold
medal eaveue before I joined the Marine Corps seventeen. I've
been blessed by God with the talents he's given me
to win more shooting competitions than I can remember. I've
won most of my competitions and rifle and pistol, but
I've also competed in archery and shotgun and even muzzle loader,
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the knife throwing, hatchet throwing. I've competed in all that.
I've also been a professional big game hunter and guide.
Like I said, I grew up hunting and fishing and shooting.
I've done it to put meat on the table because
I like to put food on the table with the
talents God's given me. I don't apologize for that. I've
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done it as a professional hunter and guide. I've slain
all manner of beast and guided for all manner of beast,
bear and wolf, and elk and deer, mule, deer of
white tailed deer. I've slain ram and fallow deer and
countless animals. And I don't apologize for that either. FBI
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Certified Firearms Instructor NRA, and a bunch of other three
letter government agency certifications. Blessed be the Lord of my rock,
who trains my hands for war, on my fingers for battle.
So I'm one forty four. I've been blessed to be
the commander of a tactical team, an SRT special response
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team in a large metropolitan area where a primary job
was to stop active shooters. But again, first and foremost,
I'm a servant of God, called by God to share
the good news, preacher, a fisher of men. With that
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we will roll into the day's topic. So a little
bit about the things I've seen in life as it
pertains to civil unrest and rioting. So I joined the
Marine Corps seventeen. And that was way back in two
thousand and one. This was before we went to war.
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This was pre nine to eleven, and I was in
Kuwait waiting to cross the line, waiting to cross the
border into Iraq. We had not yet invaded Iraq, we
had not yet declared war, but we knew it was coming.
We were sitting in our tents on the Kuwait border
of Iraq, had obviously already been through boot camp in
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basic training, and to my unit, it shipped out. We
all knew war was on the horizon, but we didn't
know exactly when. And I don't have a way to
prove this, and I'm not gonna go back and tryusperstantiate
it now. But we were told, and I have no reason,
no doubt that we were, if not the first unit,
one of the very first units to cross the border
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into Iraq. And I was infantry, and I saw things
that only a Marine Corps infantrymen in war would see.
I got to see some unbelievably awesome and horrible things.
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One thing I got to see was I was in Baghdad,
and I was a specialized infantry and I was attached
to let's just call it a very special unit. And
we were in Baghdad covertly before we destroyed it, so
I got the very let's say, unique perspective. I was
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blessed to see Baghdad as a functioning, major metropolitan city,
much as you would see in New York or la
or London or Tokyo. Now, culturally those places are very different,
but they all have things in common, and they are
a functioning society and culture and a large metropolitan area.
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They had electricity, they had running water, they had culture.
The neighbors and our safe house next to our safe
house were British. From what I understand, there was a
pretty well thriving Christian community and Jewish community before we
went in there. It was a large metropolitan city. It
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was a big, big city with a large population. I
just I just looked up and this is one source,
but it says the population was over five million. And
Baghdad pre invasion. And I got to see that city
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as the units came in, as we invaded it, as
we bombed it. I got to see beautiful marble floors
destroyed under several tons of tank and war machine. I
got to see a functioning society with happy people walking
down the street and kids playing to packs of ruling factions,
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call them what you want, tribes, radical Islamic extremists, fighting
in the street, shooting in the street. A society where
once cops and police cars meant order to having no
idea what side they were on, whether they brought peace
or chaos. The sound of gunfire in the streets, and
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buildings literally being bombed and crumbled, the loss of utilities,
a loss of things like power and clean running water,
and sadly, fields of bodies just laying there in the sun.
And you know, it didn't take very long. I got
to see that perspective that most other soldiers and marines
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that came after me did not get to see, because
it was always a war torn place when they came.
They had never seen it as it was before, much
like any modern city in America and Europe would be.
They didn't get to see it descend. They didn't get
to see the breakdown quick it was, how violent it was,
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how unpredictable it was for the people that lived there.
But I'm blessed that God got me through that safely
and that I can share that with you today. And
then we can talk about it and learn from it
and glean from it, and that you hopefully never have
to see anything that horrible. Also went to work for LAPD,
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and as you might imagine, we had our share of
riding and protests, and I would call them more especially
after the Iraq incidents, especially after the war. I would
call them more of civil disobedience and protests. But there's
some violence. Yes, we obviously trained for civil unrest and riding.
We obviously got deployed to civil unrest and what I
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would call more not so peaceful protests. Also dealt with
this both in training getting ready for when I was
a private contractor and I was the commander of a
tactical team when the large metropolitan area we protected got
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shut down for COVID, and I got to see on
American soil just a light sprinkling of civil unrest and
got to see quite a high spike and violent during
that time, people getting desperate, people protesting because of things
going on in other cities. In Minneapolis, which is not
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where I was, which is quite a far aways away,
there was some let's just call it racial tension, and
some of the people that served under me, In fact,
one of the members that served me on that tactical team,
one of their family members was killed. And let's call
it a protest going wrong with police. One of the
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family members of one of the men was killed, shot
and killed. I got to see quite a bit of
violence here on American soil. And again it's alarming how
quickly a city can change normal every day to chaos.
So there's a few things that God has gotten me through,
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and with that experience, I'd like to share with you
some lessons learned, some things that we can learn about
rioting civil unrest, chaos, call it what you want. Lesson
number one, don't be in the cities. Don't be in
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the cities. Come out of for my people, as it
says in the Bible. So don't be in the cities.
There's a time and a place. You heard my bio.
I don't want to be a hypocrite. As a young man,
I felt the calling to serve and protect others. The
reasons I stepped up as the commander of a tactical
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team to command that and be in charge of that
and be willing to lay my life down kicking down
doors for the men and women on that team is
because felt the calling for to protect life and preserve
life and help others. And I was willing to lay
down my life for the citizens and especially the members
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on that team. Obviously, when I served in the military,
I felt the calling to do that. I've always felt
called to be a warrior and a soldier. That time
in my life, I had to obviously live in a
city to be the commander of a tactical team in
a large metropolitan area. If that's not the walk that
you are in life, if that's not the place where
you are in life, if that's not your job, if
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you feel called to come out of for my people,
get out of this city. An ounce of prevention is
better than a pound of cure. There's rarely riding in
the cornfields of Nebraska. There's rarely rioting in the sawtooth
wilderness of Idaho, or in the Everglades of Florida. Take
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your pick. If you feel called to, if you don't
feel a or if you're not, I should say fulfilling
a calling in the city, come out, come out of
her be set brit Revelation eighteen. And I heard another
voice from heaven saying, come out of her my people,
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that you be not partakers of her sins and that
you receive not of her plagues. You get any large,
large gathering of people together, and it's just statistically some
of those people are not going to be good people. Generally,
there are people that keep those people in check law
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and order. But if that law and order is removed,
then what happens. And when people see other people getting
away with stuff, people that are normally neutral shift over
and take advantage of the situation. All that being said,
that is mitigated if you remove yourself from that large
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gathering of people. And I'm not talking about suburbs what
I call people hives. That's still a large gathering of people.
As I alluded to in the situations I've been in,
it is amazing how fast a city can descend into chaos.
The next tip if you are in a city, or
have to work in a city, is leave before you
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think you need to. Things happen quickly, things escalate very quickly.
If you've ever been in a traffic jam, which I'm
sure you probably all have if you're listening, you'll know
that when I was LAPD if I got on the
freeway at a certain time, fifteen minutes later, it might
cause me another hour on the freeway. Likewise, in a disaster,
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if you don't get out before you think you need to,
if you wait till it's very obvious that you have
to get out, then most people are gonna know they
have to get out, and they're all gonna try and flee.
You'll get out before you think you need to take
a quick vacation, your family on a camping trip, whatever
that might be. Get out before you think you need to,
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before it's obvious, because if it's obvious, everybody's going to
be trying to get out. If you've listened recently, you
know that I actually had to bug out, not because
of any civil unrest or anything. In fact the opposite
of that. We lived near two giant national forests. One's
one point six million acres and one is one point
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eight million acres of beautiful wilderness and forest or as
a wildfire. We had to get out quickly. And you
may want to go back and give that episode to listen.
I actually did two, one right afterwards and one a
week or so afterwards, with lessons learned from actually bugging
out again. It is amazing how quickly things can break down.
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But a big lesson learned from that, and this also
applies to civil unrest, is have a plan. We knew
where we were going, We knew we were bugging out too,
and rewinding when my wife and I lived in the city,
when I was the commander of that tactical team and
the SOPs that we had standard operating procedures for you
non military types, our standard operating procedure. We knew where
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we were going to rendezvous and when big situations happened,
whatever that disaster might be, especially civil unrest, especially like
a bombing or a giant event or rioting. If everybody
is trying to use their cell phones their communications at once,
they normally crash. It's normally not feasibly able to make
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a call and just talk to somebody. One tip is
you may try and send several text messages the same
one over and over and hopes that one will get through,
but don't rely on that. My wife and I both
carried in our vehicles a different color of paint, a
very obnoxious color. My wife had like this little lavender
color of purple, a very uncommon color, and I had
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a weird kind of green color. We had places where
we were going to meet We lived within running distance
of each other. We worked for a giant company. And
I won't say anymore because I'll give it away what
I did. But we lived in a large metropolitan area
and we were within a running distance of each other.
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We knew that freeways and things could get clogged, be congested,
and we might not be able to drive to each other.
But we had a plan and where we were going
to meet up. And if we got there and the
other person wasn't there, we knew if that paint was there,
that person had already been there and where they were
going next. If we saw that paint, if we saw
that color. Most people aren't going around tagging gang signs
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in lavender purple. Knew If let's say I went there
and I saw that, I knew that she had already
been there, and she was on her way to the
next place safer and further away from the large metropolitan area,
had that sop. I'm arn for doing this at the time,
but we do it now, and I'll call myself out.
I probably need to recharge it because it's been a while.
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But we carry walkie talkies in the glove boxes of
our cars so we can communicate even now. All that
to say, have a plan. Don't in the middle of
this chaos, in the middle of the civil breakdown and unrest,
think oh, I got to get my kids and my
wife or my friends or whatever, and have they have
no idea where to meet because again you probably won't
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have comms, you probably won't be able to use your
cell phone, no idea how to get them, where to
get them. Something happens to your kids, know where to
rendezvous with you if it's not at home, if you
can't get home, have several places picked out. Don't have kids.
You don't have to freak them out. Just say, hey,
you know, if something bad ever happens, bad ever happens
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to school and you have to run away, or you
get away, that spot where we went squirrel hunting, or
that spot where like to park and watch the sunset,
that's where we're gonna meet. And they know that that way,
if something bad happens, they don't have to figure out
how they're gonna find you. Lots if people and families
and refugees and stuff get displaced in disasters, don't let
that be. You have a plan. Have a plan first.
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When that wildfire broke out. My wife and I had
a predesignatid bug out location and we had two designative
routes we knew. My wife just reminded me also we
had especially when we lived in a large metropolitan area,
we talked about those colors of paint. Well, we had
sat down and made a list of things we were
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going to grab, things that were most important. If we
had more time, we would grab more stuff. But as
you may imagine if you listen to Gunfighter to Life,
another podcast that we do, I'm kind of into guns. Obviously.
I've made my living as a professional gunfighter most of
my adult life. I have like my go to guns
and a couple especially like this is my go to
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end of the whatever chaos is descending upon us, the
peanut butter and chocolate has hit the fan. Guns and
I had certain AMMO and stuff designated for that. I
had are important documents where they were gonna be, and
a lot of that stuff I tagged with that obnoxious
color so that you could just walk through the house
and be like, oh, that's that's super bright green. I'm
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grabbing that. That's important, especially when there's a lot of
stuff going on, rioting and looting, and especially if you've
got to get out of there, the first ones get
out of there are going to get out of there
much faster than people that wait four or five or
six minutes later. So my wife just reminded me that
I kind of forgot about that. Yeah, not all this
stuff was tactical. Like I said, important documents refugees like
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you need to be able to prove who you are,
what you've done, things like that, clothes that you're going
to take, or a predesignated things to grab passport might
be pretty important. Cash Cash is a big one and
a big disaster, except for the very biggest of disasters,
cash is going to be much much appreciated and good
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to have when things like ATM machines aren't working on
powers out. I forget the guy's name, but he was
in one of the South American countries when it broke
down into civil unrest. And I forget the exact quote,
but it was something like a glock nineteen and ten
thousand dollars will get you out of a lot of problems.
And I see a lot of wisdom in that, especially
if even if it is a complete breakdown, even at first,
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you offer somebody, you know, one thousand dollars for a
couple of gallons of gas. If you need it, it's
worth it. And if they don't know exactly what this
is going to pan out to be and you offer
them that kind of money, they'll probably take it. Do
that with anything, food, water, whatever, especially in the beginning.
But anyways, we've we've done whole episodes on bug out
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bags and smaller bug out bags and things like that.
You can go back and look those up. Have a plan,
have a plan to get out, have a plan of
things you need to take and things that aren't important.
The human life is most important, but some things and
these things happen quickly. Big fan of keeping things in
your vehicle for this very reason. He just talked several
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times about the end of the age. He says, a
fleet to the mountains. He also says, don't turn back.
It's going to happen suddenly. But he's talking about like
the end of the age, the end of days. But
most disasters they can happen pretty quickly. So don't have
all your ars and your shotguns and everything and a
safe locked up at home on a fifty mile commute
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to work. Have that in your car. Well often, you know,
we're amazing. I keep like a couple of long guns
in my car, Like what if so many breaks in?
Take them like God will provide, I'll get more. That's
way better than the reverse. In that there's a big
mass shooting or mass chaos and I need or be
very beneficial to have something a little bit more potent
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than my everyday carry gun. I can steal carry gun
and it's fifty miles away, locked in a safe somewhere.
If it's one of your go to guns, it needs
to be where you are. It's a quick recap come
out of my people. If you can, don't be in
the city, get out before you think you need to
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have a plan. My wife will tell you that I'm
not the most organized person, but when it comes to this,
I like a little bit of organization. I like to
know what's going on and have a plan, not a
place to be unorganized. Have backup comms, have backup communications.
Your cell phone's probably not gonna work in a major disaster,
walkie talkieslers, whatever That plan could because be something so
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simple and I just make this up. You could say,
you know that place we're gonna meet you know this corner,
there's a stop sign. If there's a pile of rocks.
If I pile a pile of rocks up near that
stop sign, that means that it's not safe to go home.
In certain kind of tactical operations with you, stuff like
this all the time that just the average passer by
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is not gonna know. You know, if there's a stick
in this mailbox when you walk by and check it,
if there's a stick in there, that means it's not
safe to go here. It means I've already been here
and left, and you need to meet me at X
so and so place. It's not complicated stuff, but you
both everybody needs to be on the same page. You
know it beforehand. You need to know where you're going.
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You need to have a plan, location, and again, rally points,
that's what we're talking about. If you're not a military person.
I try not to use too much military vernacular, but
rally points, objective, rally points, fall back, rally points. And again,
you don't have to say all these crazy terms and
freak people out. You get you and your wife both
work in the city, live at home. If something happens,
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this is where we're gonna meet if that's not viable,
if that's where a problem is, then we're gonna meet here.
We're gonna meet at the Tasty Freeze where we like
to get I don't know, ice cream. I'm making stuff up.
I don't know. You get the point, whatever that is
for you. Now, let's say you've screwed up. You are
in the city. You didn't get out in time, and
you can't get out, now what, And you need to
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have a plan beforehand if you can't get out. A
big killer in any natural disaster, and especially if things
go down a long period of time, people die from
lack of water, and they die from lack of clean water.
Big killer and a lot of disasters is people drinking
dirty water and dying from water born diseases. If the
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live in a city, you're probably not on a well,
you're probably on city water. What happens when the city
stops cleaning that water, or what happens when you turn
on the tap and the water comes out again as
soon as you get the inkling before you think you
need to maybe fill your bathtubs up with water. You
ought to store a little bit of water in your house. Again,
it's not hard. You don't have to freak people out.
Just have a couple of cases of water in the
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bottom of a closet. We used to have an area
in our apartment that we didn't use much, and we
had it filled with the five gallon containers of water
in case we couldn't get out. You probably have a
little bit of food in your apartment. I'm a big
fan of storing food and things like that. Water is important.
Clean water is important. Don't just assume because your whole
life you turn on a tap and waters come out,
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that it's going to be that way in a disaster.
And have a plan again for hardening your home. To
teach whole courses on this on home hardening, on hardening
your home making it a hard target. But again, your
best bet is to be out of the city. I
don't care how hardcore prepper you are, with your awesome
battle rifle and your super tactical kit, your plate carrier
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and your night vision goggles on your helmet, protecting your home.
You know, if you live in a cul de sac
and they're civil unrest, somebody could just break into the
home beside you, and you know, lob Molotov cocktails in
your house. You can stand in your ground and fight,
but when your house is on fire from an empty
beer bottle full with fifty cents worth of gasoline, doesn't
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take much to burn down most residences. All the ambulon
guns in the rules are not going to save you
from that, So try and get out of there. If
you have to try and make your home a harder target.
A lot of times, I hate to put it this way,
but looters and mobs and things go for low hanging fruit,
They go for easy target. So if you can make
your place a harder target. A big part of this
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is community. Again, have a plan, talk to your neighbors beforehand.
If you live in the suburbs, what I like to
call a people hive. You know, if there's five cul
de sacs and one has banded together and parked other
vehicles in front of the cul de sac and blocked
it and has barricades and has people on patrol with
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you know, flashlights, with ways to defend themselves, they might
not want to mess with that cul de sac. Again,
any determined intruder you're probably not gonna be able to
defend against. Long term, there's a regencyge warfare, so effective,
but they're just looking for easy targets. Don't be that
easy target, be a hard target. And that's a whole
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other thing. We can get into a whole other episode.
And if you like this episode, I'd like to hear it,
and I'd like to make this a series. I would
like to get into more into home hardening, community hardening.
I would also like to get into the firearms. As
you can imagine. Again, I've been a professional gunfighter most
of my adult life. Good and bad choices for civil unrest, firearms,
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used to employ them and deploy them when that's good,
when and that's bad, when it's appropriate, when it's not.
All those kind of things getting in get into in
today's episode. But if you'd like me to get into that,
and I probably will. Number One, make make sure you're
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There's a Patreon link on there. If you want to
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make sure you're subscribed. That way you get it when
it comes out. That's going to bring us to the
tactical Tip of the Day, and I feel like there's
been a lot of tactical tips in this episode. The
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tactical Tip of the Day. This comes from Patreon, and
I don't want to harp on Patreon again, but if
you want to support on Patreon, there are some perch
you get some insider content and we have a really
awesome group of what I would call the inner circle
of patrons that are in a group chat on Facebook
and we it's not just me, it's us helping each other.
Iron sharpens iron, one man sharpens another. They're part of
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this virtual tribing community that helps each other. And this
tip came from there, and I give credit to pat
for this tip. He gives a lot of good tips.
Everybody on there is awesome. But his tip is, you
know you ever go to the airport and forget that
you have a knife in your pocket or something like that,
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Well apparently they sell those knives in batches on eBay.
So if you're a knife guy, you know I'm big
into EDC. You know I'm big on carrying a knife.
I think a man, especially in Alpha male, you ought
to have a blade on you ought to have a
knife on you. One of his well it's called the
tactical tip of the day is you can get those
knives on eBay. People auction those off. They buy them
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in big, in big batches and lots from what I understand,
and they sell them on eBay at a bargain. So
instead of going to Wish or whatever and getting the
cheap Chinese knockoff of the knife you've always wanted. Maybe
go to eBay and check that and see if you
the bench made you've wanted or the cold steel is
on there from a tsa confiscation that you can get
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at a good deal. And if you do, when you
save a little bit of money, remember this podcast, remember
page and consider supporting again on goods Sheepherdtraining dot com.
That's a great tip, and it's even greater to be
part of that community. I'm very humbled that those men
are part of the community that brings us to the
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more important thing, the tactical verse of the day. And
we've covered a few verses today. This is going to
be the first part of Psalm seventy one in you,
Oh Lord, I put my trust. Let me never be
put to shame. Deliver me and your righteousness and cause
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me to escape and climb Your ear to me and
save me. Be my strong refuge. Thanks man, have a
blessed day.
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